Legal Opinion
Hammonds v. Osteopathic Hospital Founders Ass'n
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided September 17, 1996No. 84357, 82183PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPALA, Justice.
A single issue is dispositive of the two consolidated causes. Did the trial court abuse its discretion by imposing the 12 O.S. 1991 § 2011 1 sanction against Braly and Sellers, counsel in the case, for prosecuting Hammonds’ motion to impose sanctions upon the defendants? Our answer is in the affirmative.
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THE ANATOMY OF LITIGATION
While a patient at Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital [Hospital], Vari Hammonds [Hammonds or patient] escaped his restraints on November 8, 1982 and fell from his third-floor room’s window. Joyce Walters (his daughter) moved him the next day to another…
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